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Almost as soon as it was floated in 1965 by Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Schildkraut, the serotonin hypothesis of depression—reduced and simplified by pharma marketing to the “chemical imbalance” ...

Slowly, machine-learning systems are beginning to generate ideas, not just test them. By Benedict Carey Machine-learning algorithms seem to have insinuated their way into every human activity short of ...